Cybernetics, semiotics and meaning in the cinema
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Abstract
THIS paper builds on Gene Youngblood's use of cybernetic theory in film analysis. It combines the cybernetic method with Peircian-derived semiotics in an attempt to derive a meta-theory of social process and film textual structure. An attempt is made to resolve the more deterministic elements of Youngblood's theory, developing a more probabilistic approach. The paper ends with some conjecture on how the cyber- semiotic theory developed can be combined with Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxist approaches developed by the scholars contributing to the British journal Screen.
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Cybernetics, semiotics and meaning in the cinema. (2022). Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa, 4(1), 48-62. https://doi.org/10.36615/jcsa.v4i1.2141
